Creating Your Business Email
Using a business email instead of a personal email offers several advantages for a small business: 1. Professionalism: A business email (e.g. yourname@yourbusiness.com) looks more professional than a personal email (e.g. yourname@gmail.com or yourbusiness@gmail.com). It helps create a credible and trustworthy image for your business. 2. Branding: A business email promotes your brand every time you send a message. It reinforces your company name and makes it more memorable to clients and partners. 3. Organization: Keeping business emails separate from personal emails helps you stay organized. It makes it easier to find important messages and manage business communications efficiently. 4. Security: Business email accounts often come with enhanced security features, reducing the risk of hacking and data breaches compared to free personal email accounts. 5. Consistency: Using a standardized business email format for all employees ensures consistency in communication, making it easier for customers and partners to recognize and remember your business. A business email enhances professionalism, supports branding, improves organization, increases security, and ensures consistent communication.

How to set this up:
Before you start it's important that you have already purchased your new domain name from a company like godaddy.com (video instructions on easy tech page), namecheap.com or another...
Step 1
Go to the Google Workspace sign up page & choose a plan.
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Step 2
Add your company name.
Step 3
Enter the number of employees, including you.
Step 4
Add your contact information and continue.
Step 5
Add your new domain.

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Step 6
Choose your login username and password for your Workplace account
Username ex, firstname@yourdomain.com or hello@yourdomain.com
Tip~ choose whatever you want your main business email to be, this will also become your admin login to Workplace. Mine for reference is Lauren@thedeardoula.com
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REMEMBER--write your username and password down somewhere safe.

Step 7
Review account info and Accept Terms.
Step 8
Add billing info.
Step 9
If it asks if you want to add on Gemini AI add on...skip for now.
Step 10
Click 'I Understand' after reading the info about your new account.
Step 11
Click Next to go to Admin Console, watch short step-by-step tutorial.
Step 12
Click on PROTECT

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Step 13
Start the process of verifying your domain.
Verifying your domain (Watch video tutorial below)
(Before you can use your domain with your Google service (for example, Google Workspace or Cloud Identity), you need to verify that you own it. Your domain is your web address, as in your-company.com.
You will verify your domain at your domain registrar's website, not at Google).
Don't let this video stress you out.
DNS = Domain Name System, it's not that important, you'll only need
to know where to find your DNS.
~ If you want to skip ahead, video start at 0:57 for domain verification steps.
If you experience trouble, or can't remember who you bought your domain through, click here.
Step 14
After your domain is protected, you can add new users like team, or you can add these after set-up is complete (after is recommended).

Step 15
Next, click on Activate to Gmail for your custom domain email.

Step 16
Click on I'm Ready to Activate Gmail.
Step 17
Click on SIGN IN TO VERIFY.
Step 18
To sign into your new account go to mail.google.com
Step 19
Click on Add Another Account (or use another account).
Step 20
Enter the username and password you created above in step 6.
Step 21
Congrats! You can now send and receive emails from your new business email account!
Troubleshooting?
Here is a great step-by-step tutorial from start to finish including manual DNS updating and verifying.
This accomplishment is worth celebrating!
Make sure you post in our private group so we can celebrate YOU and this next step forward!
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